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What is Web/Remote vs. Local Technologies

Chapter 26
Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
Web 2.0 applications are, by definition, hosted in web servers (i.e. not in a desktop) that are remotely accessed through a web browser. This usually implies permanent connection to the Internet. Nevertheless, some of these applications can be used locally (i.e. in a desktop or laptop) by replicating the installed setup of a web server (this is what XAMPP does – see note vii). This allows content being accessible without an Internet connection and, in some cases, to synchronized it with the remote database once the connection is re-established
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The Personal Research Portal
Ismael Peña-López (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch026
Abstract
The author of this chapter proposes the concept of the Personal Research Portal (PRP) – a mesh of social software applications to manage knowledge acquisition and diffusion – as a means to create a digital identity for the researcher, an online public notebook and personal repository, and a virtual network of colleagues working in the same field. Complementary to formal publishing or taking part in events, and based on the concept of the e-portfolio, the PRP is a knowledge management system that enhances reading, storing and creating at both the private and public levels. Relying heavily on Web 2.0 applications easy to use, freely available – the PRP automatically implies a public exposure and a digital presence that enables conversations and network weaving without time and space boundaries.
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